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Any theory from people better versed with patent law on whether Google is gearing up to "fight" (IP-wise) Oculus or any other serious VR companies?

• lttlrck 12y ago
  Google? This is an Apple patent.
  • nevi-me 12y ago
    The danger of not reading the article, coupled with the lack of these third-party sites not showing a patent application status. Last year there were some clowns in South Africa who went around boasting about their shiny patent, which had been awarded in the US and had priority in many other countries. Instead of realising how terrible the implementation of their software patent was and improving their product, they went to startup competition places disclosing their business model, talking about how they planned on getting Google, Facebook, to licence their product. The patent was eventually rejected in the US, but third-party sites still list it as granted. They lost time from a lack of innovation due to trusting the patent and left competitors to build clever and more useful implementations of their product. Plus in SA software patents are invalid, so their right to recourse is weak.